氓 (méng): (literary) common people
氓 (méng) is a Chinese character meaning “(literary) common people.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 亡 (phonetic) and 民 (semantic). It ranks #2776 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 氓 citizens. Its radical form 氏 (clan) appears in many related characters such as 民 (mín, (bound form) the people), 氏 (shì, (bound form) family name).
Definitions
- (literary) common people
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流氓 | liú máng | rogue |
| 流氓无产者 | liú máng wú chǎn zhě | lumpenproletariat (in Marxist theory) |
| 流氓国家 | liú máng guó jiā | rogue state |
| 流氓集团 | liú máng jí tuán | gang of hoodlums |
| 流氓软件 | liú máng ruǎn jiàn | malware (computing) |
| 流氓罪 | liú máng zuì | the crime of hooliganism |
| 愚氓 | yú méng | fool |
氓 appears in 7 compound words: 0 as the first character, 29 as the last, and 71 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 氓 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
氓字由8笔画组成，结构很巧妙。
máng zì yóu bǐ huà zǔ chéng , jié gòu hěn qiǎo miào .
The character "氓" consists of eight strokes and has a very clever structure.
中国维权企业家直播遭封禁 怒斥中共是流氓
zhōng guó wéi quán qǐ yè jiā zhí bō zāo fēng jīn nù chì zhōng gòng shì liú méng
Chinese Activist Entrepreneur's Live Stream Blocked; He Vehemently Accuses the CCP of Being Thugs
证据不足 3车主告不了拖吊流氓
zhèng jù bù zú 3 chē zhǔ gào bù le tuō diào liú méng
Insufficient evidence 3 The owner of the car cannot sue the towing hooligan
该名青年将少女从流氓团伙中救了出来。
Gāi míng qīngnián jiāng shàonǚ cóng liúmáng tuánhuǒ zhōng jiù le chūlái.
The young man saved the girl from a bunch of hoodlums.
"侏儒流氓"是德国导演韦纳荷索在一九七零年的一部电影。
"Zhūrú liúmáng" shì Déguó dǎoyǎn Wéinà Hésuǒ zài yī jiǔ qī líng nián de yī bù diànyǐng.
Even Dwarfs Started Small is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog.
在二十世纪末期，南斯拉夫被美国认为是一个流氓国家。
Zài èrshíshìjì mòqī, Nánsīlāfū bèi Měiguó rènwéi shì yī gè liúmángguójiā.
In the late 20th century, Yugoslavia was considered a rogue state by the United States.
Character Family
氏 Radical Family — Characters sharing the clan radical
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